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On Sunday, five years to the day after his memorable play became a symbol of a devastated community's will to carry on, Gleason, 34, went public with his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Baseball great Lou Gehrig's famous farewell speech in 1939 marked the end of his baseball career - a career cut short by the neurological disease known as ALS. The disease later took on his name. But a study released today raises questions about whether Gehrig acutally had ALS, or a similar, newly discovered condition called Chronic Traumatic Encephaly (CTE).